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...wrote: “Since the 1960s, criticism has pointed to the lies peddled by stories such as ‘Beauty and the Beast’ . . . and as a result, the generations brought up by grandmothers and mothers who knew their Betty...
...Betty, thanks. Sandeep, excellent. So you’re the one with the ice-cream van! And crashing waves. I thought you were working from home, Sandeep. Anybody heard from Jeff?...
...- Betty — I don’t like the tone of your emails. This once, I will refile without the grooming costs. The piano is non-negotiable....
...There’s great work too from Danielle Hope as serious singer Betty and Brenda Edwards as the concierge, both holding this vast house with their solo numbers....
...The central trio are engaging, but particular mention must be made of Jacob Maynard, who took over as the innocent Chip with mere days’ notice....
...Mirella Hagen as chambermaid Betty is one of the evening’s delights; Robert Gleadow morphs into a Mephistophelian manipulator with his own slick charisma....
...Despite a feminist campaign spearheaded by the likes of Betty Friedan after groundwork done by 19th-century activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she declares the struggle for gender equality “remains...
...Primates of Park Avenue recalls Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique, a study of mid-century American housewives, which found they wanted “something more than my husband and my children and my home”....
...Capped sleeves such as the block-coloured Air Rush Rash Guard can be found at Sweaty Betty (£70)....
...“It’s only natural that things have come full circle once more,” says Tamara Hill-Norton, founder of London-based contemporary sports wear label Sweaty Betty....
...And instead of the Nolan Miller sparkles of her later years, think easy metallic numbers from Reed Krakoff, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Balmain....
...You’ve heard it before: Betty Draper, the Hitchcock blonde from the US television series Mad Men, wears a sumptuous piece of 1960s clothing on screen and, before you can even utter “suppressed housewife”...
...But beyond the standard jeans, fashion designers are still investing time and effort in alternative denim – see Betty Jackson for a denim smock, Chloé for a classic denim shirt, Diesel Black & Gold for...
...But 70-year-old Betty Vaisey, in a puffy anorak and baker boy cap, finds there is a drawback to remembering M&S’s good old days....
...We work on our products with the creative industry and designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Betty Jackson, and the museum has relevance to the commercial world.”...
...That’s just what things cost,” says New York businesswoman Betty Sargent. “Then I saw all the sales last autumn and it altered my perspective.”...
...Send your comments to emma.jacobs@ft.com...
...Last winter, as he was planning his 2009 cruise collection, Louis Vuitton’s Marc Jacobs decided he needed a change....
...They are too reminiscent of an era, described by Betty Friedan in her 1963 Feminine Mystique, when women were told “how to catch a man and keep him …how to cook gourmet snails …how to dress, look and act...
...On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square By Marshall Berman Verso, £10.99 Berman quotes his mother Betty encouraging the family: “Let’s take a bath of light.”...
...director of Christian Dior, making Mr Ferré the first Italian to take the helm at a French couture house, and paving the way for others such as his successor, Englishman John Galliano, and the American Marc Jacobs...
...A young native Indian, Jacob, muses on his Scottish friend Donald’s ”peculiar questions”: ”He is constantly asking what [Jacob] thinks of this and that....
...whether the trend towards a tougher side of femininity – which started last season with Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent and his tunics and skinny trousers – will actually hold this season, given Marc Jacobs...
...One recommendation on the Mrs Clinton station I created was “Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do” by Betty Wright, a feminist-minded Seventies soul artist....
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